Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...university president lacked authority to censor or control the editorial content of a campus newspaper. Apparently O'Connell feels that a change in order. The arrogance of his contention--in challenging the state attorney general and trying to circumvent basic tenets of an unfettered press--is amplified by the trivial nature of the issue from which the controversy first arose...
...fate of a nation of merely 3,000,000, with a land mass of hardly 26,000 sq. mi., may seem like too trivial a matter for the world's concern these days. But we made peace, prosperity and independence viable for 22 years-until Russian imperialism made a shambles of it. Is it asking too much to want this again...
...that war is ugly. Surely, we all understand, at least abstractly, the ethical ambivalence involved in ending life for the sake of the living. Still, for generations of Americans raised on hazy memories of "righteous" wars from the War of Independence down to World War II, these incidentals are trivial stacked against the glory of our supposed war-time causes. Suffering merely humbles the victor, makes his triumph more noble, more admirable. It entitles him to his booty. Political and social questions aside, this points up what troubles Americans most about our entanglement in Indochina; we are losing...
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...Conceit), who teaches a course called Witchcraft, Magic and Astrology at New York University, takes a dim view of the whole movement. "Most occultniks," says Rachleff, "are either frauds of the intellectual and/or financial variety, or disturbed individuals who frequently mistake psychosis for psychic phenomena." Yet for all its trivial manifestations in tea-leaf readings and ritual gewgaws, for all the outright nuts and charlatans it attracts, occultism cannot be dismissed as mere fakery or faddishness. Clearly, it is born of a religious impulse and in many cases it becomes in effect a substitute faith...